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Stock 426 hemi crank max HP #1364829
01/05/13 07:12 PM
01/05/13 07:12 PM
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How much HP will a factory stock hemi hold up too?

Re: Stock 426 hemi crank max HP [Re: maximus] #1364830
01/05/13 07:34 PM
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I don't know, but a stock Hemi crank is plenty rugged. Before the fairly recent advent of replacement parts came a long, quite a few of the top running Hemi cars in the country ran Street Hemi cranks, Kellogg if you could get it.

I ran them myself for forty some odd years, and never broke one. One of the things a lot of folks don't know, but a lot of them were cracked...even from the factory. And, a lot of them were raced with cracks in them. We would pull it down, have it magged again, and the crack never went anywhere. We used those motors for years, and wore them out, but never broke anything. So did a lot of others, and if they are honest they will admit it. A lot of the old timers can tell you what "ring it out" means.

A side, a famous Pro Stock racer told me that they ran many a cracked street hemi crank in their top tier Super Stockers. They would "ring it out", not even mag it. If it rang out OK they'd use it. They never experienced a failure, either. Now, I don't know that I'd do that now, because I simply don't have to, but there is more to these stories than these folks tell you.

Now, I know a lot of young guys on here are going to get on their hackles and say it ain't so, and have explanations why you shouldn't run it. I don't know where this latest fad of measuring quality of parts by HP came from...some marketing genius' I guess.

But, if you are going to run it behind an automatic, in a Stock / Bracket type application, it sure wouldn't scare me to use it.


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Re: Stock 426 hemi crank max HP [Re: maximus] #1364831
01/05/13 07:36 PM
01/05/13 07:36 PM
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....5HP less than it did before it broke.....sorry, I had too.

It all depends on the weight of the rods and pistons....the quality of the parts and the RPMs that your spinning it at.

Very sorry but it is a very hard question to answer....lets try it this way. Stock crank with all stock parts...I would say in the 700 to 800hp. Light weight parts, 1000 to 1100hp A true factory crank is a nice quality part.

Just my


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Re: Stock 426 hemi crank max HP [Re: Troy] #1364832
01/07/13 12:29 PM
01/07/13 12:29 PM
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In Super Stock style motors with reasonable piston/pin/rod weights and RPM's below 8000, the stock street hemi cranks lasted into the low/mid 700 HP range. Above that threshold, we need a stronger crank.


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